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SSWH10/ Unit 3 Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What term can be defined as "the Spanish soldiers, explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16th century?"

(a)  

2.

What term can be defined as "the transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America?"

(a)  

3.

What term can be defined as "the global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas?"

(a)  

4.

What term can be defined as "the biggest deportation in history and a determining factor in the world economy in the 18th century; Upwards of 12 million Africans were torn from their homes, deported to the American continents, and sold as slaves?"

(a)  

5.

What term can be defined as "the owning of human beings as property, able to be bought, sold, given, and inherited?"

(a)  

6.

What term can be defined as "the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies, and later to North and South America, to be sold as slaves—so called because it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade?"

(a)  

7.

What term can be defined as "a Chinese imperial eunuch, admiral, and Muslim, who was entrusted by the Chinese emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa?"

(a)  

8.

What term can be defined as "a small Spanish or Portuguese sailing vessel of the Middle Ages and later, usually lateen-rigged on two or three masts?"

(a)  

9.

What term can be defined as "(b. 1469 – d. 1524) was a Portuguese sailor, who was the first European who went to India (3 voyages) through the Cape of Good Hope, the southern end of Africa?"

(a)  

10.

What term can be defined as "an astronomical instrument for taking the altitude of the sun or stars and for the solution of other problems in astronomy and navigation: used by Greek astronomers from about 200 BCE and by Arab astronomers from the Middle Ages until superseded by the sextant?"

(a)  

11.

What term can be defined as "an Italian explorer responsible for the European discovery of America in 1492 where he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain, under the patronage of Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, hoping to find a westward route to India?"

(a)  

12.

What term can be defined as "(b. 1480 – d. 1521) was a Portuguese explorer who organized the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, but died in route with Juan Sebastian Elcano completing the trip?"

(a)  

13.

What term can be defined as "(b. 1485 – d. 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the Spanish Kingdom?"

(a)  

14.

What term can be defined as "(b. 1471 – d. 1541) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that conquered the Incan Empire where he captured and killed the Incan Emperor Atahualpa, and claimed the lands for Spain?"

(a)  

15.

What term can be defined as "to sail (or fly) around the earth or the first known success was the Magellan-Elcano expedition, which sailed from Seville, Spain in 1519 and returned in 1522, after crossing the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans?"

(a)  

16.

What term can be defined as "colonies in which the colonizing people settled in large numbers, rather than simply spending relatively small numbers to exploit the region (ex. British North American colonies)?"

(a)